Olivia Laing 2 Books Collection Set (The Garden Against Time & The Lonely City)

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:<br/><br/>Titles In This Set:<br/>The Garden Against Time [Hardcover]<br/>The Lonely City [Paperback]<br/><br/>Olivia Laing 2 Books Collection Set (The Garden Against Time & The Lonely City):<br/><br/>The Garden Against Time [Hardcover]:<br/>In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams.<br/><br/>The Lonely City:<br/>When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis.Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.<br/>9781529066678/9781782111252